Styles / Strikethrough
Strikethrough Text Generator
Type a line and get it crossed out. Two crossing styles are at the top, and the other styles are further down.
This swaps your letters for special characters. It is not a font file, and some screen readers read it badly, so keep it to decoration.
Showing a sample. Type above to see your own text.
Strikethrough
No styles in this group.
Example
The line Hello, world, in this style:
How the line gets there
It is not a font effect. After every letter the generator adds an invisible helper character, a combining mark, which tells the device to draw a stroke through the letter before it. Underneath, your words are still ordinary letters.
Strike or slash
Strikethrough draws a long line through the middle of each letter. Slash through draws a diagonal stroke across it. Both are made the same way.
It can look ragged
Each mark is drawn separately, so the line may have tiny gaps between letters or sit at different heights in some fonts. It looks cleaner at larger sizes.
Where real strikethrough exists
Discord and GitHub let you put two tildes around the text, and every word processor has a strikethrough button. Those keep the text as normal text. Use the generator where there is no other way.
Questions
Are the original letters still there?
Yes. They are normal letters with a small invisible mark after each one, which is why copying works almost everywhere.
Why does the line break up on my screen?
It is drawn letter by letter and some fonts leave tiny gaps. That is a limit of how the effect is built.
Can I remove the line afterwards?
Retype the text. The marks are mixed in with the letters, so you cannot select just the line.